The name Vlatko in Hebrew letters is ולטקו. Below: how its number adds up, which page of the Torah it falls on and what verse stands there. Everything is computed, nothing is guessed.
ולטקו
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is ולטקו. This name comes from the Slavic languages. Its source is the word or name vlad, which means “to rule”; today it is mostly found in North Macedonia. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 151 — the same as the Torah word קנא, “to envy, be jealous”. That number points to Torah page 151 of 354 — in the portion Ki Tisa. What that portion is about: The half-shekel for the census; the golden calf and the broken tablets; the thirteen attributes of mercy; the second tablets. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 2:18. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.
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Adding up the letters of the name ולטקו gives 151.
151
The number 151 is the Torah word קנא — «to envy, be jealous» (Genesis 26:14).
And no man shall come up with thee, neither let any man be seen throughout all the mount; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mount.'
This is from the portion Ki Tisa. What it is about: The half-shekel for the census; the golden calf and the broken tablets; the thirteen attributes of mercy; the second tablets.
Other ways of counting
The tradition counts the same name in several ways. The main one is above: each letter is its number. The other eight are old and checkable too; each gives its own number, and many of them have a Torah word with the same number.
Final letters as 500–900 (mispar gadol) — 151. A Torah word with the same number is קנא — “to envy, be jealous” (Genesis 26:14).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 25. A Torah word with the same number is כה — “thus, so” (Genesis 15:5).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 52. A Torah word with the same number is בן — “son” (Genesis 3:16).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 787. A Torah word with the same number is לקראתנו — “to meet us” (Genesis 24:65).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 11053.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 383. A Torah word with the same number is שבועה — “oath” (Genesis 24:8).
The letters that come out are פכנדפ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 234. A Torah word with the same number is יריחו — “Jericho” (Numbers 22:1).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 703. A Torah word with the same number is מסגרת — “rim, border” (Exodus 25:25).
The number 151 appears in the classical books 22 times across 13 works. The earliest mention is דרושי שער הכוונות (~1573).
Every letter of the name explained, the words and namesakes with references, the Hebrew date, the letter and tribe of the month, day 861 of your life (±1), the psalm by age, the attestations from the classical books — a PDF sent to your email.
The number of the day, every morning
Every date has a number too. Once a year it will match the number of your name — 151. The channel posts one number a day, one verse and the Torah page it lands on. Nothing after it, no mailing list.
Hebrew is written from right to left. ולטקו has 5 letters: ו Vav, ל Lamed, ט Tet, ק Qof, ו Vav. The first letter is Vav, the last is Vav.
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The name ולטקו does not stand as a word in the Pentateuch — as with most names, including many Tanakh names from the later books.
The verse of your name
There is a custom: at the end of the prayer one says a Torah verse that begins with the first letter of one's name and ends with its last. For ולטקו these are ו and ו. The Pentateuch has 548 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 2:18:
ויאמר ה׳ אלהים לא טוב היות האדם לבדו אעשה לו עזר כנגדו
This is from the portion Bereshit. What it is about: Creation in six days and the Sabbath; Adam and Eve in the garden; Cain and Abel; ten generations to Noah.
Each Hebrew letter has a number; a word's number is their sum (alef 1 … tav 400). The page is the remainder modulo 354: the Torah divided into 354 pages of 861 letters, as the lunar year has 354 days. Everything can be checked by hand.
